<p><!-- CL 498416, https://go.dev/issue/60448: add a new analyzer for check missing values after append -->
  The <code>vet</code> tool now reports calls to
  <a href="/pkg/builtin/#append"><code>append</code></a> that pass
  no values to be appended to the slice, such as <code>slice = append(slice)</code>.
  Such a statement has no effect, and experience has shown that is nearly always a mistake.
</p>

<p>
yields a function value representing <code>Mv</code> with signature
</p>

<pre>
func(tv *T, a int) int
</pre>

<p>
Such a function indirects through the receiver to create a value
to pass as the receiver to the underlying method;
the method does not overwrite the value whose address is passed in
the function call.
</p>

<p>
The final case, a value-receiver function for a pointer-receiver method,

<p>
yields a function value representing <code>Mv</code> with signature
</p>

<pre>
func(tv *T, a int) int
</pre>

<p>
Such a function indirects through the receiver to create a value
to pass as the receiver to the underlying method;
the method does not overwrite the value whose address is passed in
the function call.
</p>

<p>
The final case, a value-receiver function for a pointer-receiver method,

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Some of the details map precisely to the machine, but some do not.
This is because the compiler suite (see
<a href="https://9p.io/sys/doc/compiler.html">this description</a>)
needs no assembler pass in the usual pipeline.
Instead, the compiler operates on a kind of semi-abstract instruction set,
and instruction selection occurs partly after code generation.
The assembler works on the semi-abstract form, so